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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Summary Offences Act</name>
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        <heading>Summary Offences Act</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
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          <question date="2023-09-14T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Summary Offences Act</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:53):</by>  Supplementary: does the Attorney understand the difference in the law between operating a brothel or running a boarding house and trafficking?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:54):</by>  I can understand how that relates to the question.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I would rule against it, but you are prepared to answer.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  I can understand how that relates to the question. There are very significant penalties against trafficking humans, and particularly internationally, whether that's for any sort of work—whether that's for work in primary industries, whether that's for work in any other area of society. They are the penalties that—I think the honourable member is confusing—ought to apply here.</text>
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